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Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
MONTGOMERY.

Montgomery is aping Chicago in
the divorce busin sss.
One case is pending nova A.
Garner Esq. being counsel for the
wife.
A severe wind and rsin storm May
23rd blew down many trees and
fences and also little church: in the
suburbs of the city.
The meeting at the First Colored
Baptist church May Both in the in
terest of bringing the State U niver-
sity to Montgomery WAS largely az
tended and good subscrip' ion raised
for that purpose.
The" Literary" on the 31st was
charmed by sole and chorus by
Miss S. Blount snd others. An
able paper was presented and the
meeting was very interesting one.
IsMrs. Evana, of Huntsville. the
mother of Mr.. Percy Peckwith who
has been quite i'll here, came down
to minister 10 her boy, who am
glad TO note in much better and ex-
poets to spend the summer in Hunts
vile to Sc Elk cnmpl, te restoration of
his health.
Quite large lumber left on the
26uIt for Tuskeyee to attend the
State Normal Commencement. Mr..
5. S. 0odson and Fl. Tresler went as
special artists to take some views OF
the school and buildings.
The City Schools are now all clio ,ed
and the merry children make the
streets and parks quite lively enjoy
ing the novelty Of vacation. The lady
teachers are also quite proud of be-
ing free again aud are often seen out
taking the fresh air.
| INITIAL.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
Sam Jones On Newspapers And
Preachers.

Say what they will about Sam Jones,
but whenever he talks he is interesting,
and every shot he fires hits In his pro-
hibition- speech in Chattanooga to 1900
people, he said the following on newspas
pers and preachers. 1t is in his charac-
teristic vein :
at is the duty ofevery minister of the
gospel to take sides on this question; it
is the duty OF the religious papers to
take sides; it is the duty Of the - /
like to said secular papers, bnt I'll have
to take it back, 1 guess. Those secular
papers are like the fellow on the fence.
They are in the lane between two grassy
plots, prohibition on one side and whis-
ky on the other, and all they get is the
pickings thrown to them from both sides,
and that's what they live on. It's grass,
my friends, grass, grass for the old edi-
torial OK.
believe that it is the duty of every
newspaper to take stand one way or
the other. God Almighty give us men
in the editorial chair who have honest
convictions on this subject and who are
not afraid to express them But they
are all afraid that they won't get any
more OF the grass. l say to you, prohi-
bitions stand by the paper that stands by
you.
The newspapers Of this town have
| said heap OF things about me, good, bad
and Indifferent. They have told the
truth as we'll as lies on me, and thank
them for both. make no war on news
papers and don't care whether they
make war on me or not.
A little weazen editor up here in Vir-
ginia got onto me, but what thought
about him was that when little feller
gets handful OF type, bottle of ink and
Jug of whiskey and. jumps on me, it
don't amount to much. Pve been sWal-
lowed at by whales, nibbled at by min-
nows, but God deliver me from ants.
| Give us men OF convictions who will
take bold stand against this damnable
evil; give us men for or against. Some
OF our preachers say, "Pm afraid to talk
| prohibition for fear it will offend some
of my congregation. / despise one of
these lean, finely dressed preachers who
perfume themselves with lavender and
who are too pious to take stand for the
right. There are some preachers who
talk for liquor and if there is man wi 0
comes to hell that the devil will bride
and saddle and gallop all over perdition
it will be one of these beer-drinking,
whisky selling preachers"
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

THE General Assembly Of the Presby
terian Church, South. at its convention
in st. Louis, appointed the following
committee to consider the question of an
organic union Of the churches North and
South:
Reverends NJ. D. Hoge, of Virginia; j.
G. Wilson, OF Nashville, Tenn; I. G.
Witherspoon, Of Louisville, KY; and W,
T. Junkin, OF South Carolina. Elders
w. NJ. McPheeters, of st. Louis; II. Car
ter. of Texas; R. T. Simpson, of Alabama
and w. L. Primrose. of North Carolina
Five members of the committee will
constitute quorum.
The Assembly OF the Southern church
has adjourned, to meet in Baltimore
next;year.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
the ROSE. GERANIUM.

We strayed through the garden together,
One eve when the soft June hours
Were filled with the balmy fragrance
OF thousand blooming flowers;
And blush flashed over the sunset skies
While the lovelight dawned in my darling eye
And plucked a fragrant blossom,
Which placed in her little hand.
She held it close, with SLY reserve,
For, oh, she could understand
That it whispered a story dared not tell
And the answer was that she loved me we'll
If you know the silent language
OF the flowers SO pure and bright.
Then offer one rose -geranium
To your love, in the evening light:
And then, perhaps, ii she loves You best,
She'll wear the blossom upon her breast.
ID.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

and the states of Iowa, Wisconsin and
Michigan have netted an aggregate of
S6, 600 from the lands granted them
by the government for their universities,
In addition to all this munifcence on
the part OF the federal government, agri
cultural and mechanical colleges were
endowed in each of the states with great
bodies Of land that have, up to this
time, brought the sum up to $4,S02, 900.
The total of these grants of public land
by the federal government in aid of pub
lie education amounts to 1858, ,439 acres
twice as many as are contained in Eng
land and Wales (37 1924, 1889. But this is
not all. By various laws a certain per
cent. OF the sale of land of the general
government in some OF the states has
been turned over to them for school
purposes, amounting to per cent. Of
the whole. Then there are
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

No pains should be spared to bring
to swift iustics the outlaws who shot
Marshall Blackburn and con at War
rior. Such an outrage as murderous
assault on officers in the discharge
of their duty in the preservation OF
the peace and property of the com
munity should not be tolerated. Let
the murderers be hunted down and
hang
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

WHILE fears are felt for the break
ing out Of the scourge of cholera, il
is we'll to use svry precaution against
it's approach. Clean up your pre-
mises. use disenfectants freely, be
temperate in all things and beware
of green fruits and too much new
vegetables.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
FEDERAL AID.
The Kentucky Ideas Dissected
and Its FaIIaCY Revealed.
Educational establishments Tha,
Are Supported by the Govern
rnent
JenersonIan Doctrines that Uphold
tho Plan Of Assistance.
Memphis Appeal.

Memphis Appeal.
The question of opposition to federal
aid to public education was recently
again advanced by some Kentucky poll
ticians, who have thus set themselves
against the spirit and progress of the
age, the precedent of the founders of the
republic and the laws and the customs
OF the government. They assume that
for state to accept aid for its public
schools is to encourage new and heter
rOdOx idea, to consent to it's own degra-
dation, and that if the federal govern
ment grants such aid it will be intrOduC.
ing confusion into our system to break
down the force and strength Of state in
dependence, undermining the barriers
that properly separate the states respon.
ernment and lead the citizen away from
the state to look to the central power as
the source of all political life. In view
of the history of the United States this is
a new idea. 1t is one in diametric oppo-
sition to the theory and practice of the
national government, which has always
fostered and encouraged the education
of the people as essential to the safety
of the country and the welfare Of the cit
izen. To begin with we enumerate the
educational establishments Just now
MAINTAINED BY THE GENERAL GOVERN.
There are the schools upon various res
ervations for the education OF the In
dians, the schools at Hampton, Va, at
Carlisle, Pa, for that purpose, the West
Point and Naval academies, the Smith
sonian institution and National museum,
the Congressional library, the geological
and coast surveys, the chronological bu-
reau, and the agricultural and scientific
investigations carried on under the auss
pices of the interior department, and
the bureau OF education which is as the
very heart and head OF the whole educas
tional system of the United States, pri-
vate as well as public. So much for ex-
isting institutions, the maintenance of
which each year costs many hundreds OF
thousands of dollars. Going back to the
days of the old confederation, before the
constitution was adopted and the United
States had anything like national stabil
ity, We find that MIR. Jefferson, the very
head and front of the democracy, the
ever living standard by which all good
and true democrats are willing to be
tried-we find that in May of 1874 he re-
ported an ordinance that passed in May
of the following year prohibiting slavery
in the territory OF the northwest, encour-
aging liberty and morality and setting
apart the sixteenth section of every
township of
PUBLIC LANDS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.
Here was q munificence, princely and
royal estate for the encouragement of lib.
erty and morality. 1t is estimated that
the value of those sections set apart, in
only few of the states, be it remember.
ed, has been set down at $7l.OOO, 900.
But, besides this, Ohio received SO, ,12O
acres OF public land for higher education,
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

Alabama is taking the honors these
days. 1t not only leads the business
boom but the great military Drill al
Washington. The "Lomax Rifles OF
Mobils took off the honors as the best
drilled Company.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

The grandest demonstration of
laborers ever made in Alabama took
place in Birmingham on the 30th.
The Knights of Labor 10 the number.
OF thousan ds, white and colored made
up q memorable procession.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

DECATUR is spreading itself With
the electric light, streecars, and the
enterprising Free L1nce aud mil
lion dollar enterprises on foot and in
prospective it begins to feel itself o
city.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

The Austrian War Department has re-
iected the proposal to form q balloon
corps on the ground of its excessive cost.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

TRAMP, tramp boys, we are march.
ing.-Alsbama to the rest OF the
United States.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
American Physicians,

WASHINGTON, June 3.-The second annual
session of the Association OF American ply
sicians, began this morning at the Army
Medical museum. President s. Weir
Mitchell OF Philadelphia, read his address
and papers were read and discussed.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
Resignation rendered.

WAsHINGoN, June 3.-Mr. George NJ.
Sweeney, chief clerk of the second assistants 3
office, postoffice department, has voluntarily
rendered his resignation to take effect June
II. Mr.. Sweeney has accepted a position
in the American Surety company, of New
York
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
Professor Baird's Condition.

WASHINGTON, June 3-The health of
Professor Spencer F. Baird, Of the Smithso-
nian Institution, is not as precarious as has
been reported. He is suffering severely with
an acute attack Of dyspepsia, to which he
has been subject for several years.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

HEAVY rains at Key West. brought
out six new cases OF Cholera in forty
eight hours.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

The June Century, a most interesting
number, is out and for sale by Murray
& Smith.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

SAVANNAH and Birmingham are to be
connected by railway.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

PRESERVE your pocket book by
economy.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
Will Accent.

WASHINGTON, juno 3.-Rsv John q.
Lindsay, OF this city, yesterday elected
bishop OF the diocese Of Easton, Nd, win
accept the position,
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
ATHENS.
Trinity Commencement.
Graduating Class, A
Marriage in High Life.
Personals.
ATHENS, Ala., June lst

ATHENS, AlG., June LIST
The 22nd Annual Commencement
of Trinity School has passed and was
the most brilliant and successful in
the history Of this Hourishing school.
The grand Annual Concert May 25th
had a programme unexcelled for
variety and interest. The music was
q special feature AMI splendid, while
the recitations. speeches were new
and ct0ice selections and we'll redered.
The broom drill was we'll executed.
Thursday night the Normal De-
partment rendered the following
PROGRAMME:
Opening Anthem. Prayer Es-
says;
Ii e's Aim, Miss Amanda Townsend.
The Teachers Mission, Miss Lou
,inia A. HarIi ;aole. Miss Ella
ThOmassOn.
Music,
Grafton. New South, Mr.
W. A. Harris.
Spec ch, The Negro,-Mr. NJ. C.
Turner.
Character, Mis- Lizzie Higgins.
Music.
Presentatio Of Diplomas. Class
Song. Benedict N.
/ am at loss IN attempting to com
ment on the excellence of the above
programme. suffice it to say that
every thing WIS done in sple endid
style.
Miss M. F. Wells the beloved Prin,
clpal prefaced the presentation Of the
Diplomas to the graduating class
with a most appropriate speech, full
of wisdom and sound advice to the
graduates. urging them to make o
record in life that would reflect cred
it upon themselves, their country and
the school.
Then the curtain was closed and
when raised showed a marvellous
transformation. 1t was beautifully
decorated with Pond lilies, ever.
green's and flowers. On the rear
wall boldly stood out the following
word and dates
Onward.
1865 1887
In the center was an arch of ever
green's and beneath it stood Rev
q. S. Williams. Pastor of the Ath,
ems Congregational church, and Mlsi
Louvinia A. Harris, one Of the grad
uat,ng class. They were to be united
in the holy bonds of matrimony. l,
was most pleasant surprise to thu
already delighted audience. ED
VIM. Fl. Nixon oficiated. and bride
and groom were coon warmly greet
ed with congratulations by theil
hosts Of friends. Rev. Mr.. William:
is young man of ability, refined and
polished and his fair bride is lady
Of such excellent qualities Of heart
and head as would adorn any house
hold. May life contain for them a
full measure of happiness and useful
ness.
Miss Wells with her associate
tea chers left Thursday morning for
the North. All will be clad to well
come them back at the session in
October next.
Misses Matte Ross and Anna Kel-
Ter two charming young ladies' Of
1uscumbia arc Frightening our social
circles with their presence.
j. b. Tsrry, S G. Bailey and J. H.
Thomasson are up from Birming
ham.
r. Moore and w. A. Harris from
"The Gateway" are in the city.
Miller and Crenshaw are repaiat-
ng their shop.
RABBIT FOOT.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
SPECIAL GRANTS

to educational and eleemosynary institu-
tions-as 480 acres to the Fayettee
university, 100 to the Holy Cross mis-
sion, over $4,000 acres for the education
of the deaf and dumb of Kentucky, 23,'
600 acres for the education of the deaf
mutes of Hartford, Conn.,. 400 to the
Pine Grove academy, and large amounts
to several towns of Missouri. The three
installments OF the surplus in the treas
ure lover S42,OO0,0O0) divided in 1886
among the states, $50, ,2S4 for each mem
ber of congress, was devoted by many OF
the states to public edutcaion-Georgia
setting apart 81 ,057 900, Alabama $685.
900, and Kentucky $S50,00O; Tennessee
also setting apart her portion. And as
late as the last session of congress a
lund OF s240,0O0 was set apart to be Cd.
vided equally for tie use OF the blind in
the several congressional districts. with
so overwhelming a weight of
TEST MoNY IN FAVOR OF FEDERAL AID
to education as settled policy, even be-
fore the constitution was adopted, how
can any Democrat with consistent face
set up an opposition to 1t? After ac-
cepting so much federal aid to their
public school and higher educational sys
TENS, how can any state in the nOrthwes
oppose the petition of the southern states
for federal aid in the work Of educating
the negro, especially in view of the ma
terial losses of those states by the civil
war? What Democrat can consistently
in the face of these facts, say another
word about federal aid to education
breaking down state rights and degrad-
ing the citizens. All the aid above
enumerated has been gladly availed Of.
There is no record OF any state refusing
it. Yet they are all in healthy condi-
ton in their relations with each other
and with the federal government. In
deed, there never was time when
those relations were closer or happier,
never time when the balance of power
between the states and the nation was
more faithfully observed, or when the
nice distinctions of law that define their
relative powers were more tenaciously
adhered to by the federal as well as the
state courts. Federal aid to education,
it is thus seen, has always been policy
of the government. All the states have
profted by it, those of the northwest and
west especially. 1t was inaugurated and
set on foot by Jefferson, the founder Of
the democractic party, the sage and phi>
losopher, whose every thought was a
quickening force for the government he
helped to establish, for the people to
whose service he consecrated his life and
for whose education, to the day of his
death, he was an unceasing advocate and
friend.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
SATURDAY, June. 4th, 1887.
HEALTH is wealth.

PRESERVE your health by regular
habits.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

Ex-Vice President Wheeler ie reported
as dying at his home in Malone. N. Y.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
So SHOE.

The best shoe for the more ey, war
ranted to give entire satisfaction is
the w. q X So shoes at
j. YEATMAN'S,
now removed flom the Huntsville
House to Murphy's old stand, east
side Public Square.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

a ST. JOINS LODGE, No. 2. Mobile Ala
W. Meet at Masonic Hall N. E. Royal and
MS st. Michael streets, 1st Wednesday
night each month in Regular Communication
7H o'clock.
K. W. jackson, I'M
AlfredS. Smith. Sec'y
Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04

A MOUNT HERBoN LODGE No. Is. Biz
w mingham, Ala, Regular monthly Com
w munication 1st Tuesday in eac
month Hall Oh the 4th Ave. beteen 9th and
10th ts.
A. A. Sensabough. WIN.
Jno L. Tuggle, Secretary.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03

the face of the predictions of the political
prophets who are telling US that the tar
If is to be the bone OF contention, the
Press raises the bloody shirt and wildly
valves it. 1t is to be the old cry over
again. The Republican parry seem to
learn nothing and forget nothing. The
same language, the same sentences and
the same redundant fctions are here.
The Press continues: "The same brutal
spirit which put three bullets into the
body of Prohibition Gambrell and then
battered his face into q shapeless mass
with the but of a pistol has murdered
hundreds of colored men in the south for
daring to be Republicans, has robbed-bal-
lot boxes and forged tally-sheets, has
stolen governorships and seats in Con-
gress, and finally laid it's bloody hand up
on enough electoral votes to grasp the
presidency. That Democratic State Sena-
tor shooting and clubbing man to death
for daring to be Prohibitionist is fair
representative of the party which made
and holds the southern states solid"
The next presidential campaign will
evidently be like all other presidential
campaigns since the war. Personal Sian.
der, sectional hate and villifcation
will be the chief weapons. The horrors
of the late war will be magnifed and
again witnessed, and men who never
smelt powder will fight vsliantly, with
their tongues, the battles lost and won
1t is probably impossible to conduct 9
campaign without these disgraceful &C.
compartments, Men who are sensible
on all other questions seem to get beside
themselves when they enter upon polit-
ical campaign. Fealty to party is sup
posed to be the motive which aCtuates
men, but, like the Paris commune that
perpetrated the grossest atrocities in the
name of liberty and humanity, so
the politician .lOses all sight OF the ordi-
nary conVentionslities and plunges for
ward with utter abandon into the dis
gushing details of campaign methods
The day of common decency among pol
iticians, rational discussion among states
men, and sensible and temperate deport-
ment among citizens may be earnestly
prayed for and regarded as the political
millennium, but as long as such papers as
the Press continues in its present foolish
attitude there can be little hopes Of its
near approach.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
WEATHER AND CROPS.
The Weather Bulletin Shows the Rain
in Excess of the Average for
the Week Just Passed.
Two Negroes Killed by Lightning In
COlOred Baptist Church at Gle
burne-NO Others Hurt.
The Wheat Drop in Better Condition in
Many Parts of the Wheat Belt.
The Prospects FIattering
The weather Bulletin,

WASHINGTON, May 29.-The following
is the weather and crop bulletin issued
by the Signal Office to-day.for the week
ending May %: Temperature during the
week ending May IS shows the weather
has been slightly warmer thal usual in
the Mississippi valley and thence west
ward to the Pacific coast, and from
Southern New England westward over
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The
week has been slightly cooler than usual
in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Virginia and
South Atlantic states, but in all sgriCul-
tural districts east of the Rocky noun
tains the average temperature for the
week differs slightly from normal.
In Oregon, Washington Territory and
Northern California the excess If tenn
perature ranges from % to 50' The
season from January 10 to May IS has
been slightly warmer than usual in the
grain and tobacco regions, while the
average daily excess in the cotton region
has Oeen from I-5~ to q During the
week the rainfall has been slightly IN eX-
cess of the average in the cotton regions
from Texas eastward to Georgia, and
generally in New England, New York,
Pennsylvania AMI Virginia Frequent
SuOHSIS OCCuIItu III INT COEH anu wheat
regions where the total rainfall
for the week, although Well distributed,
was slightly below normal. Kansas has
been favored by rainfalls in excess of
normal, especially in the western por-
lions Owing TO favorable distribution
of the rainfall, 3 seasonal deficiency of
ten to ifteen inches appears, as yet uniu-
furious in the cotton region. Through
out the entire agricultural districts the
weather has proved especially favorable
for growing crops, aud reports Sunday
morning, May %, show that the favorable
conditions of rainfall and temperature
yet continue, except in Michigan, Illinois
and Southern Minnesota, where needed
showers are to-day predicted.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
TARIFF REFORM.

The administration Will Take Action
During the Nsxr Congress.
WAsmEGTON, May 20.-FOr some dag-
there has Deeu more or less informal tss5
in administration circles on the ,ar.E
question. From intmauons dropped
in thess quarters il may be announced
that Secretary FairchIid is seriously coz
templstius q mOvemeDtWith the appr0o1-
ton OF the President and mis- col
leagues, looking 20 the coEceu-
tration of the Democrats In the
House of Representatives a-s
the Senate upon measure for tariff TO-
dUCtiun. After careful inquiry If has 0cfu
asCertained that every member If IN.
Cabinet is favorable TO such pro
gramme. After his experience Of the
past two Congresses the President is cor
yinced that but one course remains Cue-
TO the Democratic party, and that It
the formulation Of oil in consultation
with such men IS Randall and CarLis
and others representing diYe.-
positions Of Democratic sentimeu.
On the subject, for the puTpUz.
of bringing them together on some com
mon ground Of agreement. The Presid
has seen for sometime that On issue will
be made on the tsrif and has urged tina.
if would be more sagsci0us 10 get -g
work at once and prepare g bill to be sub
mitted TO Congress rs measure Of ss-
m,nistration policy than 10 let the ques-
ton continue t. play havoc D. tTe-1raLd
in the ranks of the party. i is propose
to make the bill ar administration cU..-
ton in the House and thus bring nc 5tIa.
the people IS the distinctive issue Uu.r
which the Democratic party vii. stand
the next campaign.